Age Quotes - Page 5

• The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Growth, Half

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiration, Men, Firsts

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

  George Sand

  Funny, Wisdom, Mistake

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

  George Burns

  Taught, Aging, Elders

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• A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

  Richard Steele

  Healthy, Fool, Aging

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• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, 50th Birthday

  Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

  Alan Alda

  Golden, Golden Rule, Fairs

  Commencement Speech at Connecticut College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

  Jean Anouilh

  Past, Half, Aging

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”

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• It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Witty, Philosophical

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• For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Years, December

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Funny, Witty, Philosophical

  Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)

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• People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

  Russell Baker

  Justice, People, Aging

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Time, Destiny

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  A. C. Benson

  Long, Littles, Aging

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Fruit Juice, Squash

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• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

  Hugo Black

  Funny, Sports, Humor

  Quoted in Think, Feb. 1963

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Reality

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Thrill Seekers

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• An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Christian, Time, Snow

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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Time, Inspiration, Live Life

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• Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Birthday, Childhood

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